Countries
Sri Lanka
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Philippines
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Philippines
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
Interesting Facts
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
- "Filipino" was officially declared as national language by the constitution in 1987.
- "Filipino" is the official name of Tagalog, or synonym of it.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Tagalog Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Spanish Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5428
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
185
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3623
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Kumusta
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Salamat
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Kumusta
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
magandang gabi
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Magandang gabi
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Magandang hapon
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Magandang umaga
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Mangyaring
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
pinagsisisihan
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Paalam
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Mahal kita
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
patawarin ninyo ako
Dialect 1
Vedda
Bikol
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Philippines
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00100,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Hiligaynon
Where They Speak
-
Philippines
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.008,200,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Waray
Where They Speak
-
Philippines
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.002,600,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
18
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million90.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %1.74 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million45.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million45.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
filipino
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Pilipino
French Name
singhalais
filipino; pilipino
German Name
Singhalesisch
Pilipino
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ˌfɪl.ɪˈpiː.no]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Filipino people
Origin
3
16th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Filipino
Language Position
7034
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Filipino Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
No Data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
fil
ISO 639 2/B
sin
fil
ISO 639 3
sin
fil
ISO 639 6
sin
fil
Glottocode
sinh1246
fili1244
Linguasphere
No data available
No Data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
-